Claire Fontaine

A one-hour online briefing for directors and executives on building scenarios, triggers and prepared moves into the board's regular cycle.

Most board scenario exercises produce a thick report and no decisions. A lighter approach, tied to triggers and pre-agreed moves, makes them useful.

A closed-door breakfast in London for finance leaders planning their next cost program, built on the findings of The CFO Cost Agenda 2026.

How 286 operations leaders are using AI in maintenance, planning and quality, how much of it reaches production, and what the companies seeing returns do differently.

Designing an organization from a blank page sounds radical. Done well, it is the most practical way to remove layers and duplication without starting a political war.

The first hundred days after closing set the pace for everything that follows. What to settle before day one, what to do quickly, and what to leave alone.

A survey of 412 chief financial officers on cost programs, how much of the savings survive, and the practices that separate durable results from temporary ones.

Most operations AI never leaves the pilot stage. The few use cases that pay back share a set of traits that have little to do with the model itself.

Companies raised prices faster than costs between 2021 and 2024. Customers remember. How to set prices now that the cover of general inflation is gone.

Most cost programs hit their first-year targets. The savings disappear in the second year, for reasons that are predictable and largely avoidable.